Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1921, Page 2

% Oeaithologists’ Unloa, In 2 . LLNESSISFATAL " TODRW.AFOX _Eye Specialist Was One of Founders of Episcopal Hospital. Lr. William Henry Fox, eye spe- alist and a lifelong resident of Washington, died at his home, 1826 Jefferson place, yesterday after a short iliness. Dr. Fox: would have celebrated his sixty-fourth birthday had he lived until November 18. He was the son o John L. Fox, a surgeon of the Unit- «d States Navy, and Mrs. Elisabeth Amory Morris Fox. His early education was at St Mark’s School, at Southboro. Mass. and he 1eceived preparatory train- ing at the De Veaux College, Suspen- sion Bridge, N. He attended the Yale Sheffield Scientific School and took the natural history course at Yale. He received s degree of M.D. at Columblan—now George Washing- ton—University in 1834 he spent two years in the New York Tost-graduate School and at the Man- hattan Eye and Ear Hospital. Alding Founding of Hospital. He was one of the founders of the Yipiscopal Eye, Kar and -Throat Hes- pital of this ci.y and one of its senjor ‘ive surgeons rince its foundation in $a7. He i's executive officer from 1007 to 1 Natural histor:* was one of his favorite ~'udies. After completing the course at Yale, he was elected a president of the Yale Society of National Histors fine collection of birds is now owned by Jonathan Dwight of New York and k spider ~ collection was purchased by Cornell University. He held membership in the Nuttall Ornithological Club, in the American the Ento- mological_Seciety of this city, in the Medical Society of this city, in the Ophthalmelogical Society and the So- ciety of Ophthalmologists and Otolo- £ists of this city, and was also a f low of the American Medical Associa- tion. For more than twenty years he Jyas historian of the K. F. R. Soclety ere. Married In 1889, In 1889 he married Miss Jalvene B.|speaker also recalled Lord Derby's sug- | Suther Ewing of Nashville, Tenn. Funeral services will Le conductedigf France at a dinner last Tuesday | roway at the family residence on Jefferson | evening that an Anglo-French alliance | prjq place tomorrow at 2 o'clock. Intes ment will be at the home of his wife, in Nashville, Tenn. C. A. BRICKWEDDE DIES OF INJURIES FROM FALL Retired Furniture Dealer Accident- ally Thrown From Street Car Platform at Dupont Circle. s CHARLES A.°BRICKWEDDE. Charles A. Brickwedde. a retired furniture dealer, 218 3d street south- east, fell from the rear platform of a street car rounding Dupont Circle vesterday morning and received in. juries which resulted in his death at Smergency Hospital about 4 o'clock this morning. David Vdlland, 2918 Sherman ave- nue, drove the injured man to the hospital. Mr. Brickwedde, it is said, did not appear to be seriously hurt when he reached the hospital. His condition ~oon became worse, however. and spe- cialists who were called were unable to suve his life. Coroner Nevitt will hold an inquest af the morgue tomor- row morning. Mr. Brickwedde, a native of Bremen, tiermany, was sixty-seven years old. He had been a resident of the city the vast fifty years, and was in business .t 822 9th street a number of years. e was one of the organizers of the \merican Commercial and Savings nk and member of the board of di- restors. He also was treasurer of the Prospect Hill Cemetery Company. Hiz wife survives him. Funeral services will be held at the residence, d interment will be in Prospect Hill emetery. Arrangements for the fu- naral have not been corupleted. WIDOW OF TWO VETERANS Mrs. Sidney Ann Hamilton Is Dead i at Winchester. s pecial Dispatch to The Sta: WINCHESTER, Va.. November 4.— | Mre. Sldney Ann Hamilton. eighty-| inree vears old, who died at her home here, was the widow of two Confederate veterans, who were rivals for her Iavor| hefore the civil war. long before the outoreak of strife between the states Hamilton sought her hand rin but she married George Con- ner. "The latter was wounded while fighting with the Confederate f@rces at the battle of Gettysburg, and his cld-time rival. harboring no ill feel- Ing, brought him back to Winchester in a3 wagon. Mr. Conner died soon thereafter. Returning to his old home after the war, Mr. Hamilton renewed his suit for the young widow's hand and won it. They celebrated their golden wed- ding anniversary with a large family reunlon. Mr. Hamilton died here less than five months ago. SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS. | David H. in mar- Negro Pleads Guilty to Charge of Manslaughter. Tdward Godfrey Evans. forty-seven vears old, colored, who recently pleaded 3uilty to manslaughter, after a jury had been sworn to try him on an indictment Jor murder In the first degree, was sen- tenced today by Chief Justice McCoy, in Criminal Division 1, to serve fifteen Years in the penitentiary. The sen- tonce is the maximum under the law, and in fixing this penaity the court pointed out that under the evidence the fury might have found a verdict carry- ing the death penalty. Kvans was a corporal in the United Sitates Army, stationed at Fort Myer, and went to the fort to secure a pistol, vith which he shot and killed his wife, fargery. at their home, 935 S street worthwest, following a quarrel over the ttentions of another man to the wife. Attorney John H. Wilson represented tie prisoner. DIES OF INDIGESTION. While visiting at 645 R street last night, Harvey C.- White, colored, {orty-six years old, suffered an_at. tack of acute indigestion and died. Coroner Nevitt gave a ocertificate of Afterward | His | { befits our MANY THEFTS REPORTED. Shopper Loses $40—Another Wom- an Loses $150 Diamond. Mrs. ‘Harriet M. Emery. 1208 1ith street, appealed to the police to re- cover her pocketbook containing $40, checks and receipts. The pocketbook, he reported, was taken from a counter in a store where She was |making purchases. W. W. Conner, 223 10th street north- east, reported that his shack near King lock on the Chesapeake and Ohlo canal wi obbed of an accordion and wen;r'ln‘ appurel. He valued the loot at $81. | Theft of a diamond ring valued at 18150, a plain gold ring and string of |pearls was reported by Mrs. Amella {Bihlman, 142¢ W atreet. Burglars entered the lunchroom of J. H. Ledger, 625 Pennsylvania ave- nue, between 2 and 3 o'clock this morning. They stole 95 cents from the cash register and - cigarettes and jcigars from a showcase. HARVEY KILLS HOPE - OFANY ALLJANCE Tells British U. S. Still Fol- lows Policy of Wash- ington. | By the Associated Freas. LIVERPOOL, November I.—eorge Harvey, the United States ambassador to Great Britain. told an audience at the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce tonight_that it was futile to hope that | America, as Lord Derby recently had been suggesting, may some day be merged in a definite alliance with Great Britain and Frar This statement was made as a digres- sion from an address on economics and the international industrials situation, in which the American ambassador at- tacked communism and socialism and defended the principle of individualism. In his digression Ambassador Harvey recalled Lard Derby's statement in a recent address at Birmingham, in which the latter voices the conviction that the success of the Washington limita- tion of armament conference would mean and that its failure wouid mean war in the immediate future. The gestion to former President Polncare would be desirable in the interests of peace, intimating the “strong hope’ that America might eventually join the combination. “Now it seems to have fallen to my unhappy lot sii-te I have been in Eng- land,” continued Ambassador Harvey, vto dispel iltusions respecting the at- titude of the United States. I can con- ceive of no more effective service on the part of an envoy, desirous as I am of eliminating all causes for misappre- hensfon, than to set forth, frankly, any certainty which may bear upon the im- mediate future, however disappointing it may be to his hearers. In pursuance of this policy, rightful or wrongful as it may be. 1 feel impeiled to say fran ly that the hope voiced by Lord Derby must be regarded as futlle. “Qur first President fixed the for- eign policy of the United States clear- ly and unequivocally when he ad- jured his countrymen never to enter a permanent alliance iwith any other power. This policy has been re- afirmed by practically all his suc cessors. 1t was reiterated with great positiveness in our latest national campaign by our present President. and was confirmed by a majority of the people so great as to be beyond the pale of comparison. Would Avoeid Discussiol “In view of these circumstances, am I doing more than stating the wholly obvious and inescapable fact when I pronounce the entrance of the United States into any permanent alliance, however desirable that action may seem to be an utter impossibility? May it not be, then, the part of wis- dom to avold discussfon or’even sug- gestion of a proposal which, however praiseworthy it may be, could hardly serve any purpose other than to feed enemies and distress friends of both Great Britain and France who live in America?’ Ambassador Harvey, in dealing with the subject of world economics, said the aftermath of the war was hardlv less disconcerting and devastating than was the war itself. “At the expiration of the ensuing week,” he continued, “we shall have reached the beginning of the fourth year following the armistice. Even THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SENATORS REFECT SECOND SALES TAX Vote Against New Proposal by Smoot for One-Half of One Per Cent. The Smoot plan for a busines: sales tax of one-half of one per cent on gross sales exceeding $6,000 & year was rejected today by the Senate, 46 to 25. All those supporting the Smoot plan were republicans. The demo- ats voted solidly in the opposition and were joined by twenty-two re- |publicans. © This was regarded as ending the efforts to include a sales tax provision in the pending revenue revision bLill. Sales Tax Voted Down. The Senate iast evening voted down 43 to 25, the Smoot manufacture! sales ta In the debate on the ufacturers' sales tax plan, some re- publican leaders indicated that & sales ax might have to be provided for in connection with the Soldiers' bonus bill, which they predicted would be passed at the next seasion of Con- gress. Discussion of the sales tax was compuratively brief. Senator Smoot was the chief speaker for the plan, which w opposed by Senators Len- root of Wisconsin, McCumber of North Dakota, McCormick of Hlinois and Nelson of Minnesota on the republican side and Senators Jones of New Mex- ico, Heflin_of Alabam and Simmons of North Carolina on the democratic side. Result of Roll Call. The roll-call showed: For the amendment—25. # Republicans — Bursum, Cameron Edge, Lirnst, Fernald, France, Fre- linghuysen, Gooding. Jones of ‘Wash- ington,” Keys, McKinley, Moses, New, Newberry, Nicholson, Oddie. Phipps, Poindexter, Shortridge, Smoot, cer Wadsworth, Warren, Watson of Indiana and Weller—25. Against the amendment—43. Republ! ~Borah, Capper. Curtis, Kenyon, ollette, Lenroot, Me- Cormick, McCumber, McNary, Nelson, Norbeck, Penrose, Stanfield, Sterling. nd, Townsend and Wil 7 Democra shurst, Broussard. Car- Fletcher, Gerry, (lass, Har- Hefltin, _Jones of 'New Mexico, Hendrick, ~King, McKellar, Myers, Overman, Pittman, merene, Reed, Sheppard, Simmof Swan- son, Trimmel, Walsh of achu- setts, Walsh of Montana, Watson of Georgia and Williams—26. Smoot Pleads for Measure. Senator Smoot contended that the | “government's requirements would be amply met” through the six sources of revenue he proposed. He added that he had reason to believe there could be a reduction in the rate-of the tax after the next fiscal year. Turning to the intricacies of pres- ent tax methods, he aaserted that his proposal presented the one hope for “genuine relief” in that respect. The amount which he proposed to levy, he continued, was so. small as to be infinitesimal when considered in the daily purchases. Opening the argument against the sules tax, Senator Lenroot, republican. { Wisconsin, took issue with Senator Smoot that 75 per cent of the people of the country favored the sales tax. There had been a great propaganda for the sales tax, he declared, but contended that it would not change the income tax of individuals or cor- porations. A sales tax, he continued, was Justified only when all other sources of taxation had been exhaust- ed and the government still was short of revenue. MORE THAN 10,000 VISIT ANNUAL “MUM” EXHIBIT More than 10,000 visifors inspected thé 1,600 best specimens of large Japanese chrysanthemums and the 3,000 pompom varieties during the first day and a half that the twen- tieth annual “mum” show of the De- partment of Agriculture was open to the public. There were 7,000 attendants yester- day, and 3000 the afternoon before. The greenhouses at 14th and B stree northwest, where the show is being held, have bcen crowded since 9 NOVEMBER ¢, 1921 TO REPRESENT BELGIUM. AT ARMS | CONFERENCE. BONARAW TAKES - UPIRISH QUESTION By the Associated Iress. LONDON, November 4—A. Bonar- Law, one of the most prominent mem- bers of the unionist party and former government leader in the house of commons, conferred with Prime Min- ister Lloyd George last night and is taking a hand in the effort to reach a isettlement of the Irish question. The Daily Mail in discussing Mr. Bonar- Law’s Interview with Mr. Lloyd George, said today thut he would, ‘it necessary, bring independent influ- ence to bear upon the extreme union- ists with the view to achieving a com- plete agreement. The ocutlook for a succeasful con- tinuance of the Irish negotiations was regarded somewhat improved here today because of recent suggestions regarding Ulster's possible share in the settlement and the prospect that Sir James Craig, the Ulster premier, would take part in the discussions. The fact that Ulster members of the house of commons have said nothing hostile in reference to the latest pro- posals was regarded as a good omen, but there was no definite indication as to the attitude that Sir James would take. The government is endeavoring to fi.nd a method to transfer to the Ulster government powers which would enable it to function without delay, it was asserted by the Dalily Mail ‘this morning. 'This might be effected by an order in council, which would obliterate the necessity of waiting for parliament to pass a peoial bill. The prime minister had an audlence with the king at Buckingham Palace last evening. This was not due to de. velopments in the Irish negotiations. but followed the customary prectice that the premier see the king on his return to London from Sandringham. 1t is belloved, however. that Mr. Lloyd George reported to the king on the progress of ‘the negotlutions. SINN FEINERS RELEASED. By the Ausociated Press. BELFAST, November 4.—The Sinn Feiners. who have been under intern- ment in the Ballykinlar Camp. have been unconditionally released. The Ballykinlar internment camp is located on Dundrum bay, County Down, occupying the site originally used as a training camp for Ulster troops in the war, about thirty miles from Belfast. It was established in November, 1920. Early in May, 1921, the camp was de- scribed as “filled,” containing 1,727 men. No recent figures are avallable. —_— DIES AT THE PRESIDIO. Col. Joseph Taylor Clarke, dis- tinguished Army medical officer and native of this city, died recently at the Presidio, San Franciseo, according to word received here today. Col. Clarke, grandson of the late then we shall only be approaching g, jock this morning. .THe show is|Gen. J. P. Taylor, commissary general what we hope may prove to be the first definite and enduring settle- ments looking toward the lifting of burdens and the establishment of international agreements or under. standings foreshadowing prosperity, which can be attained only throusl the assurance of tranquil relations among the powers of the worll"” There was, he added, politicnl peace in a broad sense, and it was indus- trial peace that now was veing svught and which must be obtainel. “We must face the issue squarely and manfully,” he said. "and as it race. The first funda- mental principle that we must rec- ognize iIs that economic laws re superior to legislative enactmonta. ly and Demand Basic Law. He declared supply and demand constituted the basic law of all indus- try and that a period of what normal 1y would be termed overproduction should now follow the long period of underproduction. Instead, however, he declared both England and Ame ica had been persistent in underpro- duction. While the employer, reluctant to dispose of present stocks at lower prices, is willing to sell for prices approximating the ante-bellum stand- ard all goods hereafter produced.” Mr. | Harvey continued. “employes are ask- ! ing for more money and shorter hours now and still more money and still shorter hours hereafter. On the part of both employers and employes it is a fatuous pollcy thus to mock the fundamental laws of economies. It is a perilous policy which, if applied to international affairs, immensely ine the fcreases the danger of war. Applied | to domestic economics it not only falls to exercime, an influence for averting industrial strife, but very positively aggravates the situation so as to Increase the danger of conflict. “We, of course, do not anticipate violence or revolution. That is out of the question: but we would be blind to the signa of the times if W did not perceive the danger of an in- dustrial war as much exceeding any hitherto known as the economic dis- turbances caused by and bequeathed by the great war exceed those of any former occasion.” Mr. Harvey said the way to peace and prosperity was open if only em ployers and employes would pursue “even at the co=t of some privation, though infinitely less than that which the general public has suffered and is suffering. The speaker expressed the hope that a guarantee not only of peace, but of prosperity, would come from the Washington conference, which, he eaid. he anticipated would result in enhanced commercial co-operation as the logical sequence of the political concurrence between Great Britain and the United State: —_— BATTERY C ORGANIZED. D. C. Guard Unit Holds First Meet- ing With Twenty-Five Present. At a meeting Wednesday evening in the National Guard -Armory Bat- open daily from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. The official delegations to the inter- national conference on limitation of armamenta have been speciully in- vited by Secretary Henry M. Wallace and Dr. William A. Taylor, chief of the bureau of plant industry. The Chinese and Japanese delegations are to view this exhibition tomorrow and Sunday. More than 1,000 foreigners here for the disarmament parley are expected at the show Sunday. { Mrs. Wallace yesterday entertained ia large party of wives of prominent |officialx, and Mrs. Harding is expected to view the show as her guest next week. Mrs. Wallace has named a number of the blooms for prominent persons. Visiting commercial growers ircm many states have been deeply in- terested in several of the ncw va- rieties. One of those that attracted their particular attention is a straw- f#olored bloom, which was named esterday by department afficials the J. Claude Billinglea.” More than thirty teachers In -the District achools have notified Dr. ITaylor and Supt. Byrnes that th intend to bring large group# of their pupils to see the show tomorrow. —_— SOCIALISTS GET SEATS. NEW YORK, November 4.—Th board of alderman’ han seated AL {gerron Lee and Edward F. Cassidy, sceialis s, displacing their democratic {opponents in- the_municipal election twenty-two months ago. Moritz {Graubard and Timothy J. Sulivan. I i tery C, 110th Fleld Artillery, was or- | ganised, with twenty-five enthusiastic charter members. It was announced that the membership would be doun- tled at the next meeting, Wednesday, i November 9. The new battery, and the battalion of which it will be a unit, is to be assigned to the National Guard of the Distriot of Columbia as part of the 3d Corpe aree of the Army of the United Statea. Regimental headquar- tera will also be here, the other two battalions being E the 34 Corpa amsa. of the United States Army, was born! here October 24, He was grad- uated from the University of Virginia in 1887 and was appointed first lieu- tenant in the Medical Corps in 1890. He rose to the rank of colonel in 1917. He served during the Spanish- American war and was cited for meritorious and courageous action during several engagements. He also served in the Philippines during the insurrection. During the world war he was as- signed to Los Angeles and later com- manded the base hospital at Camp Pike, Ark. Surviving him are his mother, widow of Gen. Clarke of Winchester, Va.; a widow, formerly Miss Lough- borough of Virginia, and two daugh- ters, Mrs. L. W. Oliver and Miss Rose L. Clarke. P — COLLISION KILLS CYCLIST. Frederick E. Turner, about forty-two | years old, of Ballston, Va., was killed | today when the motor eycle on which ihe was riding collided with a motor truck at 13th and D streets. According to witnesses, Turner was riding east on D street and the motor truck, driven by Basil W. Gray, 1219 Potomac street, for the General Auto Truck Company, was proceeding north on 13th street. The motor cycle. ac- cording to the witnessos, atruck a rear | wheel of the truck. Turner was taken | to Emergency Hospital and pronounced dead. defeated MAn- |y epy to pights Chevalier de Wauters d'Oplin 7 minister frem Belgl | 1 % LAUDS UNKNOWN SOLDIER Glowing tribute to the unknown American goldier was paid by Senator J. Thomas Heflin at a meeting of the Alabama State Society last night at the Wilson Normal School “The boy we are going to bury in Arlington." the Alabama senator said, “‘was un American soldier, an American clizen, and the bravest and best of all time, and I wonder if we appreciate his sacrifice? "He helped to save civ fzation, and the life or death of that civilization is dependent on the com- ing conference. There is only one way to stop war, and that Is to stop prepa- ration for war.” Miss Liltian Chenoweth, soprano, and George Day, violinist, accom- panied by Dr. Clifton Clark and Miss Minerva ‘Bailey, were contributors to the musical program. Muj. Thacker V. Walker, president, presided. The following committees were an- nounced: Finance, William H. Bishop (chalrman), Mi uckstein, Noble Eilling: publicity, Hugh Rob- erts (chairman), Maj. H. A. Dav Alice S. Wooley: entertainment, Mrs James J. Johnson (chairman).’ Mis: Eula Thomas, Miss Margaret Steagall, Miss Cora Sigson; membership, James O. Tingle (chairman), Mrs. Mar. Pinkston Thomas, Miss Irene Lang- ford, Mirs. Thomas C. Bragg. Miss Vir- ginia Hatton: arrangements, Mr: Thacker V. Walker (chairman), Mr: W. B. Bankhead, Miss Helen Gerber AUTHORITY IS GIVEN FOR ORDER COMMITTEE Approximately 375 members of the scveral trade bodies and civie clubs were glven police authority at the District building last night to form “ public order committee during the arms conference. Odell Smith is chair- man of the committee. Theae men will not do regular patro] duty on the streets, but are merely to supplement the police on Armistice day, when the unknown soldier will be buried, and at any other large atherings that occur luring the ¢ n- suggested at tne meeting that members of the public urder commi tee might be stationed in eveni dress at the reception t» be tendered the distinguished foreizners by the citizens of the District at the National Museum on the night of November 23. While the meeting was in progress last night a policeman placed hi card in a few cars parked outside notifying their owners to leave col- lateral at No. 1 precinct for failing to have their iights burning. No records of any arrests or appearance to leave collateral were at No. 1 po- lice precinct tolay. —_— SENATE TO PROBE WATSON EXECUTION CHARGES FURTHER (Continued from Second Page.) it Is a crime to criticise the Army,” which, he said, was the stage that “Germany had reached before the breaking out of the war.” Attacks Mr. Baker. Senator Watson took up the state- ment of Newton D. Baker. former Secretary of War, that the senator's charges ' were ‘“preposterous and in- credible. “Little Newt had to get Senator Watson, little Newt. Referring to Mr. Baker's statement that France, during the war, was a “civilized” - country, and that an) illegal executions soon would hav. been made public, Senator Watson said that France had charged this government for roads upon which to haul troop trains and the very trenches used by the American forces. Senator Watson then proceeded to read letters and other documents deal ing with alleged hangings of Americ: ldiers, which, he said, in numi “long since has passed the fingers on the one hand of the senator from New York (Senator Wadsworth); are near the figures of Secretary Weeks, and soon will reach the figure which I gave. Senator Watson id he had “fur- ther evidence fresh from the mails this morning,” and read from a maga- zine quoting an unnamed officer as saying that he was informed that the Red Cross “had built a gallows in,” said laughing. {for the A. E. F. on which to hang I men and asking that all records of the transaction be removed from the files and burned.” Senator Watson said he would not name the magazine printing the officer's statement be- cause “it might be barred from the mails as was mine. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the lelegation; Baran de Cartier de Marchle: delegnte, and F. Cattier, techuical adviser, & | volley of shois at the aged statesman, Poor | republican leader, cut the Georgia senator short by demanding the regu- lar order of business, and the Senate went to the consideration of me- morials and petitions. Senator Simmons, democrat, North Carolina, later obtained unanimous consent' for immediate consideration of the resolution of inquiry. He pro- posed an amendment which was re- garded as in lieu of the move he con- | templated yesterday to dlscharge the committes and drop the committee inquiry. - Original Committee to Serve. The new resolution struck out a provision of the original measure re- garded as providing for an investiga- tion of Senator Watson himself as well as his charge. The original committee, Readed by Senator Brandegee, republican, Con- necticut, and including _Senators Ernst of Kentucky and Willis of Ohlo, republicans, and Overman, democrat, North Carolina, was re- appointed to conduct the investigation. Senator Shields, democrat, Tennessee, was appointed in place of Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, who re- signed. —————- PREMIER OF JAPAN STABBED IN BREAST AT TOKIO STATION (Continued from Second Page.) out into the streets, however, he was knocked ‘down accidentally’ by an automobile and the police discovered the infernal machines he had devised, and unraveled the plot. The assassination of Premler Hara recalls a similar dramatic incident hen Premier Clemenceau of France wali shot and dangerously wounded at \ time when the peace conference, of which he was presiding officer, was at its helght. kLis occurred Febru- lary 19, 1919. while Clemenceau was going from his home to the American headquarters at the Hotel Crillon. Springing from behind a kiosk, the ywould-be slayer, Emil Cottin, fired a | two bullets taking effect, one in the |shaulder and anether in {pear the lungs. The victim's life was | despaired of for a time, but his iron | I will helped carry him ' through and ithin three weeks he resumed his place with the peace conference, which had bern threatened with dis- ruption by the incident The Vieana congress, after the N poleonic “wars, was similarly dis: turbed. first by a series of assassina- tions and then by Napoleon's dra- matic stroke in escaping frog Elba and returning in triumph to Paris Interviewed by tipp Associated Press, { Baron Shidehara said he preferred to make no atatement until he had received | offictal word from his home government concerning the affas. | Kato Next te Premier. Admiral Baron Kato, the mnkipg member of the conference deiegatifn, ! who received the news from: ihe Asso- ciated Press, i+, next to the premier in the cabinet, and is in Washington to carry cut the premier's policies, with which he is completely familiar. The reported assassination may have an important effect upon the confer- ence on armament limitation so far as Japan is concerned, because it is the custom of the Japanese to consult; freely among themselves upen all im- | portant state affairs and the confer- ience delegation would undoubtedly ihave cabled freely to i'remier Hara fur his advice A8 the varicus im- portant subjests of lelibsrations came up. ' May Head Cabinet. ! Baron Takahashi, the minister of finance, is third in rank in the Jap- aneee cabinet, and it was deemed fike- 1y among Japanese here that he would Ve denignated as the temnorary head of the cabinet. if the report of the death of the premier-is confir.ed. Some members of the delegation were inclined to attribute the crime to Japanese “ronin” or “strong-armed men,” a band of so-called patriots, who, Some Yyears ago, were re- sponsible for the assassination of Mr.{ Abe. the chief of-the far eastern section of the foreign office, for his alleged lack of firmness in dealing with the Chinese situation. Umrest in Empire. When the Tokio correspondent of the Associated Press left Japan for Washington there were many indica- tlons of a growing spirit of social junrest in the Japanese empire, and Premier Hara himself had referred jto the necessity of the Japanese digesting slowly foreign ideas and! beliefs, especially those of a sociall order, many of which he bélieved to be entirely unsuited to the Japanese temperament. the breast ables- were present, ‘wemartal ; e —————— COMMENDS ASSOCIATIONS. Ballou Praises Work of Parent- Teacher Groups. Work of the parent-teacher asso- clations in the schools was commend- ed by Supt. Frank W. Ballou at a meeting of the Columbia Junior High Bchool Parent-Teacher Association last night in the school. He also em- phasized the need of a parent-teacher association in every public school. Need of a library in the school was stressed by Miss Allce Deal, primi pal. Other speakers were Stephen E. Kramer, assistant superintendent of schools, and Charles A. Crowell, both of whom praised the work of the Junior High 8chool. Confidence in the administzation of Supt. Ballou and other achool officials was voted by the association. HANDLERS' PROFIT ON MILK ATTACKED Representative Lampert, at Hearing, Says 48 Per Cent Is Too Large. Belief that the high price of milk in Washington to the largely to the fact that the distributors {are getting approximately 48 per cent of the price, which he thinks is a little too lurge a share, was expressed today by Representative Lampert of Wiscon- sin, chairman of the subcomntittee of the House District committee conduct- ling hearings regarding Washington®s | school build milk supply. Emphatic testimony in support of the position of the District health office in requiring that all milk and cream brought into the District for home con- sumption shall come from tuberculin- tested herds was given by experts rep- resenting the United States Department of Agriculture and the state’of Mary- land. Atterneys’ Opposttion. The principal contention at the hear- ing centers around whether the District supply of milk should come ffom tuber- culin-tested herds, or whether pasteuri- zation alone is sufficlent. The District health office is insisting that both safe- guards are necessary, while the atior- neys for the distributors are urging that both kinds of milk be allowed here in the open market. Dr. John J. Kelrnan, chief of the eradication of tuberculosis division. bus reau of animal industry, Department of Agriculture, made a strong argument in favor of a_compulsory tuberculin test. J. A. Gample, professor of dairy husbandry in the University of Mary. land, who said he appeared as repre- sentative of the dairy industry ard the population of Maryland at the hearing. and who has been all his life in the dalry industry and for the past sixteen years particularly con- cerned with conditions in production. distribution and control of milk, as well as seeing the problems from the side of the consumer, supporied the District_health office. J. A. Barbour, a milk producer and attorney, speaking for the Maryland- Virginia Milk Producers’ Association. said that the producers had been at- tacked at the hearing, subjected to all sorts of charges, held up as profiteers and as ready to starve the people, all of which charges were false, he said, and asked an oppor- tunity for the producers to refute these charges. Representative Lampert assured him that a full oppertunity would be granted the producers. Representa- tive Hammer of North Carolina aiso announced that he would insist upon the producers being granted a full ihearing. Refers te Death Statiatics. Aepresentative Hammer put into the record a letter handed to him by Rep- resentative Dan Reed of New York, recognized as an expert in civic im- provement work, which was signed by C. C. Plerce, acting surgeon gen- eral of the public health service, in which it was srated: “About 9 per cent of the deaths from tuberculosis | in man is caused by the bovine tuber- cle bacillus, most of the victims being children. Raw market milk of the cheaper grades sold in most cities fre- auently contains bovine tubercle ba- cili. Representative Reed is endeavoring to make tuberculin tests compulsory in his home state, New York. Representative Hammer also put in the record statistics fugnished him by Representative Beck of Wisconsin showing the price of milk in all the principal cities. with the cost of trans. portation and other related figures. Dr. Gamble assured the committee that his experience for fifteen years has shown him that the public wants the best safeguards that it can get on milk and that the real assurance of a clean milk supply for the city of Washington rests with the interests of the 1,500 dairymen and helpers who supply this milk. He asserted that the District health office was right in insisting upon a tuberculin test for the dairy herds. He also told the committee that the Virginia-Maryland Producers’ Association was organized with the hearty co-operation and sup- port of the dairy division of the De- rtment of Agriculture and the hus- l.nddry division of the state of Mary- and. PIMLICO ENTRIES PIMLICO RACE TRACK. Md., No- vember 4.—First race: fillies; two- year-olds selling: six furlongs— alistoga, 100; Jewell V. D. 105 Chateaugay. 108: *Quick Run, 110; Avispa. 101: Theo, 105; Little Ammie, 105; *Vengeance. 105; $Veiled Colleen, 103; Margaret White, 108; Swift Grass, 10§ *Beverly Belle, mencita, 108. Second race, Green Springs Valle plechase; four-year-olds and up o miles and & quarter—Sweepment. 170; Transpero, 142; Keltle, 132 (a)' Surf, 143; (b) Cresthill. 150; The Trout, 138; Shoal, 141; (a) Lytle, 139 (b) Vigllante, 139; Peccant, 141. (a) J. F. Flanagan, jr. and R. C. Winmill entry. (b) J. E. Widener and J. H. Lewis entry. Third race, for three-year-olds and up; selling; one mile and a sixteenth —Bombast, 108; Super, 116; *Scourge- man, 101; Cubanita, 104; Figer, 1 *Walnut Hall, 106; *Sammy Jay, sWhite Haven, 103: ®Ticacey, Frank Fogarty, 102; *Major ParKe, 101; *Wigow Bedotte, 98; O'Dawn, 102; Belairo, 111 mac, 102. ’ Fourth race, Pimlico futurity, two- year-old colts and fillies, one mile— Morvich, 123; Runantell, 122; (2)My Play, 132; Calamity J. 114; June Grass, 122; Horologue, 1 (b)Moco, 119; Kai Sang, 117; St 122 (a)Lucky Hour, 119 122; Galantman, 116; (b) All Fair, 116. . . (a)—The Lexington stable entry. (b)—J. W. Bean-B, Harding entry. Fifth race, the Southern high-weight handicap, sl ages. six furlongs— (a)Audacious Gnome, 122 (b)Sedgefield, (e)Kinnoul, 116 (d)Baby Grand, 116; By Jiminy, 110, (a)Ten Lec, 117; (b)Eastview, 108 (c)Routledge, 115: Dry Moon, 112; (d)Hidur, 105; The Boy, 103. (a)—Foreign _ entry. _ (b)—R, T, Wilson-James Butler entry. (c)—W. M. Jeffords entry. (d)—J. K. L. Ross entry. Bl;’lh race, lhrn“o-ynraoldll (-ndu\:n. s, one mile an sixteenth— e as, 113; Edith Shreve, 105; Jim- Mnr Roberts, 110; Lucky ¥lying Cloud, 108 May Giri, Ashore, 105; *Yeomanette, 08. race, Glenmore handicap, r-olds and up, one uarier—(a)8unnyland, 116; Comme Cf, 111; (a)Tody, 110; Kings Champlon, $12. (2)—B. Willlams-M. Hirach entry. SFive pounds spprentice allowanes Maryland 100; Car- *Merri- consumer Is due! *Fair Vir- | *Crack ‘ NGHERPAY URGED FOR SCHOOL HEAD Report ‘That Boston Bids for Supt. Ballou Disturbs D. C.. Educators. Advisability ©f appealing to the public to urge “A?Ngress to increase the salary of thes Superintendent of schools so as to M8ure Washington of educators of the .highest qualifica- tions to direct the ecdication destinies of more than 60,000 831001 children is being seriously comsi\>ed today by school officials, who ud'Parently are disturbed over the pot@ible loss of Dr. Frank W. Ballou, The Boston board of education, it is vinderstood, has Dr. Ballou under coksideration as successor to the late Superin- tendent, Frank V. Thompeon. The Boston superintendency pay:s & salary of §10.000 @ year, or $4,000 mare than Washington. Call for Dr. Ballou in Best\'n. Reports that Dr. Ballou may ba of- fered the superintendency of the 130s- ton public Schools has attracted the attention of members of the Distrct eommittees in Congress, and they fndicated a willingness today to afd in securing an increased salary for the Dist school superintendent Serator Capper, chairman of the joint |Scnh‘{.“ and House committee investi- i gating the schools, said t it would be a great Joss to Washington if Dr. { Ballou a4081d go away | "It wow'd be extremely unfortunat H s titn ¢ i pator Capper. bring a ney s=chool superintendent to Washington. Congress is just begin- ning considenition of a comprehensive ing program, with which Di Ballou is faiuihiar.” Senator CappaT suggested that the Commigsionerss £hould provide ftr an increase in ti'e pay of the school head in the District appropriation bill when they send it to Congress. Dr. Simon's View. Dr. Abram Simom, president of boand of education. one of the strong- est advocates of an iucrease in sal- ary for the superintemdent, said tha' unless Washington p3ve as well ax other cities of its size. “we can neve expect to hold an outstanding edu cator here." According o L. 0. the school board last year agked fon a salary of $10.000 for the school head. but Congress refused go grant i “We are going to ask for $10.0v again this year,” declared Dr. Bimor “This time we hope to get i By appealing to the public o sup- port a movement for a $10,000 @nnuu! salary for the superintendent, school officials believe that Congress wiil take cognizance of the need of this increase. It was pointed out tiw Wilmington, Del. and Scranton, Pa., two cities smaller in size and popu- lation than Washington, are each pa - ing the school superintendent $10,001 a year. DIFFICULTIES BESI.” ARMS LIMITATION | (Continued from First Page.) of their paper currency in terms « gold would corvespondingly ri This would tend to stabilize interna tional exchange and make it possibi: for Amevica to sell her agricultural and manufactured preducts in for- eign markets again. Ir would mean (& revival of business and an end of unemployment. Also, it would mean that the European countries which owe America billions of dollgrs weuld be able to begin payments on their war debt and interest. The receipt of & half billion doliars of interest alone from Europe would mean ag im- mediate easing of the burden on the American taxpayer. Behind the urge for limitation of armament are prac {tical and material reasons as well as idealistic conceptions. But how can armament be limited? This correspondent has canvassed the highest army and nawvy officials They talk in terms of relativity. 11 America ceases building €0 many ships. so shall the others. 1f Amer- ica gives up so many fortifications, so shall the others. And so on. But the navy men admit that in the end the iproportion of strength between the large powers will remain the same. They see no other way out of it. They concede the necessity for a reductior of the financial burden, but the; zealously insist on holding the United States as the second naval power, if not the first. Undoubtedly British policy will be the same. Japan would be prevented from catching up with America or passing the United States and men- acing the British seapower, if such a stupendous job could really b borne by Japanese people, which i }zo be doubted.. The Japanese, how- ever. would be checked—America and Engiand would stand still. and mone: would be saved. That's about as con- ;crale & program as one hears dis- cussed in Wushington. H Rests on Forelge Policy. ! As for coast defense in the Pacific.’ and all that sort of thing our military {and naval experts talk as if they were preparing for eventualities in the Pa- cific irrespective of the outcome of the conference on far eastern prob- lems. If they had more faith in Japanese pledges, that wouldn't be the case. So, in order to hold the military and naval set in America at bay, and to keep the same class from ! running away with the Japanese bud- get annually, the diplomats will have 1o make an agreement that will have the potential support not only of the Navy of the United States, but that of Great Britain and other signatories 1o the agreement—a general alliance for the common good and against militarism. 1t's to be a sort of league of nations in the Pacific to prevent {the growth of that same kind of reck- lessness in the far east, which the {late war and its subsequent league of { nations were designed to cure in“Eu- rope. | The whole thing rests on foreign {policy. which is fully discussed in tomorrow’s article. (Copyright. 1921, by The Evening CAPT. SCHROM MADE - | 4TH BATTALION CHIEF i i Capt. C. E. Schrom of the fire depart- ment was promoted te fourth battalion chief by the Commissioners in board ses- sion today, succeeding Chief Timothy J. Donohoe, who was retired last week. The position carries 3 salary of $2,400. In recommending the promotion Fire | Ghief George Watson told the Commis- sioners Chief Schrom has served in the department for twenty-eight years with a clean record. He was appointed January 1, 1893. On March 1, 1896, he was made an assistant foreman and on July 1, 1800, promoted to forema, In 1904 the title of foreman In the depart- mene was changed to “captain.” h'l'hl p:vm(:,ll‘bll '°|‘|||nl¢.fll.u o:htr changes in officers lower rank, which will be made later- STAGE FOUR LIQUOR RAIDS Revenue Agents and Police Seize FPive in Round-Up. Four liqguor raids were made by lo- ca] detectives, accompanied by rev enue agents, last night. Goeodman the fortifications of strategic basex H Berger, thirty years old, in business: at 837 26th street, was charged with illegal possession and 3 Charges of lllegal possession and selling were flled against Fannie | Chism, colored, twenty-three years old, 2701 I street. Diva Newman, colored, thirty years old, 807 26th street, and Ernest Dor- sey, colored, thirty-three years old. 926% Hughes court, were charged with fllegal possession. Revenue agents and_police of the sixth precinot arrested William Henry Robinson, colored, 6§04 Freeman court, and elnrgd him with illegal posses- sien and § intoxicants.